Head and shoulders family portrait of the Dofflemyres, shows James, an early Gunnison, Colorado, surveryor and later manager of the first telegraph and telephone, his wife Jennie, first telephone operator, and their two children; daughter, Lou and...

Dallas Railway and Terminal Company electric interurban trolley car #448 waits at the end of the State Street Line in Dallas, Texas. The operator stands by the car; the destination sign reads: "Trinity Heights." Lettering on the streetcar reads:...

View inside the Colorado, Burlington and Quincy railroad Depot in Brush (Morgan County), Colorado. E.S. Dutton, the agent, and George Stewart, the telegraph operator, sit at telegraph equipment. Dutton, in a bowler hat, taps out a message. The men...

and residence of Harley B. Morse, the Central City Daily Register building, Washington Hall, the residence of William M. Roworth, St. James Methodist Church, residences of Henry M. Teller (one of Colorado's first senators), and Willard Teller....

A telegraph operator stands outside the Western Union Telegraph and Cable Office in Bowen, a Victor American Fuel Company town in Las Animas County, Colorado. The operator is probably a Hispanic man who wears pants, suspenders, a light colored...

A streetcar conductor and a streetcar operator pose near and in Denver City Tramway Company car number 68 on Larimer Street between 16th (Sixteenth) and 17th (Seventeenth) Streets in downtown Denver, Colorado. The destination sign on the streetcar...

A man runs a slusher through mine drift in a tunnel of the Urad mine, Clear Creek County, Colorado. The huge scoop would drag the debris to a shaft in the floor, where it would fall onto a waiting conveyor belt and be transported out of the mine.

A man holds a lever and sits at a mine hoist in a wooden building at the Wolf Tongue tungsten mine in Nederland (Boulder County), Colorado. Shows machinery and cable wrapped on a spool. A calendar on the wall reads "December 1941" and a poster...

Telephone operators sit in the operator's rest room at the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company exchange building in Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado. The women sit in rocking chairs near a table where magazines and a plant are...

A woman sits at a desk and interviews an applicant for a position as an operator at the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph building, 1421 Champa Street in Denver, Colorado. The woman behind the desk wears a dress with a broad collar and has a...

A woman measures the height of a student at the operator's school at the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company building at 1421 Champa Street in Denver, Colorado. The student wears a wool skirt and jacket. The other woman wears a cotton...

A woman, possibly Blanche M. McFann, sits at a desk in an office at the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph building at 1421 Champa Street in Denver, Colorado. The woman is associated with the operator's training school program run by the...

Teachers stand behind a group of students who work at a switchboard at the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company operator's school at 1421 Champa Street, Denver, Colorado. The women wear headsets and sit in tall chairs facing the...

A woman screens an applicant for the operator's school at the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company Building at 1421 Champa Street, Denver, Colorado. The job applicant sits in a chair and raises her arm to measure her reach. The other...

Operators read and sew in the operator's lounge room at the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company exchange building in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. The women sit in mission style rocking chairs. Magazines are stacked on a table in...

A group of men, women and children poses in front of the Kemp family log cabin near Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Photographer Donald C. Kemp's father John H. Kemp sits with young Don and his brother Robert on the steps to the cabin. Kemp was...

A large group of workmen pose on the steps of the dance pavilion and roller skating rink at the Tuileries amusement park in Englewood, Colorado. The tall stairs lead to a central entrance covered by a dormer in the low-hanging roof. William...

The Kemp family log cabin is framed by a circle in this image taken when the cabin was first completed in 1893 near Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Photographer Donald C. Kemp's father John H. Kemp was a mine operator in Central City in Gilpin...

The Windsor Hotel is in Silver Plume, Colorado. The structure features three stories, horizontal clapboard siding, two gabled dormers with double hung windows, segmental arch window openings (pediments on first and second floors), a hipped roof,...

J. B. Rowley, a pioneer of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado, poses for a studio bust portrait wearing a dark fur hat and a leather coat over a plaid shirt and a tie. Rowley was a prospector and small mine operator near the turn of the century in...

bottle, possibly of wine, stands on the table near two small glasses and a pack of cigarettes. A cork lies next to the cigarette pack.; J. B. Rowley, a pioneer of the mining town of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado, sits at a table in front of a...

View of men in front of a log barn, at what is identified as Colonel Torry's M Ranch, in Hat Creek (Niobrara County), Wyoming. The barn has a gabled roof, a transom over a main entrance and cupolas with vents. Men are identified left to right as:...

A woman telephone operator is sitting at the first switchboard in Idaho Springs, Colorado. The headset she is wearing has a transmitter at mouth level, and wires connected to the board. Her surroundings include: an enclosing wooden railing with a...

Three-quarter view of right side of motor car, from front end, close view; John and Josie Crum in foreground; Galloping Goose. (John Crum was an RGS conductor and later motor car operator. Josie Moore Crum, his wife, a noted Southwest Colorado...

A group of men and women stand around a backhoe during the ground breaking ceremony for the construction of an addition to Lamb Memorial Hospital at 1560 Humboldt Street in the North Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Some of the men...

A group of men in suits pose in front of a backhoe at a ground breaking ceremony for an addition to Lamb Memorial Hospital at 1560 Humboldt Street in the North Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The men wear suits and ties. A man sits...

A group of men in suits pose in a operations room at the Denver Police Department in Denver, Colorado. An operator sits behind a desk where rolls of ticker tape and telegraph machines are arranged. Electrical switches, dials, and light bulbs are...